Monbiot (aka Moonbat in blogger speak) still w/ this Respect coalition?
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> ...As for gays, well, they are being told that they must know their
> place. A few weeks ago, there was a nasty incident when members of Peter
> Tatchell's OutRage! group joined a pro-Palestinian demonstration. Their
> placards read: "Israel: stop persecuting Palestine. Palestine: stop
> persecuting queers". The slogans had been inspired by the arrest and
> torture of Palestinian gays by Hamas and Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement.
> When the demonstration went into Trafalgar Square, the gay protesters
> were surrounded by an angry crowd of Islamic fundamentalists, Anglican
> priests and members of the SWP, and were variously denounced as
> "racists", "liars" and "Zionists". Say that Palestinians should be freed
> from theocratic tyranny as well as Israeli occupation and you're an
> American, or, worse, a Jew.
-- Michael Pugliese